Neil Leach is a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc. He is the author, editor and translator of 22 books, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Designing for a Digital World, Digital Tectonics, Digital Cities and Camouflage. He has been co-curator of a series of exhibitions at the Architecture Biennial Beijing since 2004, and was also co-curator of the Swarm Intelligence exhibition in Gallery SH, Shanghai, China in 2010.